The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
AJAHN CHAHThe teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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